Mauritania

glorious state and a history that praises our revolutionary struggle from stateless to statehood. The geography of our state features the region located in the Northwest of Africa on the Atlantic coast of the continent just south of Morocco, north of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. Encompassed by fertile plants and arid desert, we are a proud home to the richest resources such as hydrocarbons, phosphates, and iron ore. We take good pride to be a part of the Saharan Desert, the largest desert in the world

Western Sahara is located on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. It is mostly part of the Sahara desert. Western Sahara is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world. Their climate is hot, dry desert, rain is rare, the cold offshore air currents produces fog and heavy dew. Due to the fact that The Western Sahara is mostly desert, we can not build a highway through here, but it could be built on the coast. Western Sahara’s territory is 85% under

INTRODUCTION UMA means the economic and political organization, founded on 17 February 1989 by the five Maghreb countries, namely Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia. This region is experiencing a great shortage of water. In parallel, there are many problems such as poor access to water leaks in water supply, waste and mismanagement networks. This sentence from the report of the World Bank in 2011 illustrates the need to take action at the risk of seeing the situation worse.

region lies in South-East Asia, a 2014 study conducted by the anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free discovered that Mauritania--an otherwise unassuming country in West Africa- boasts the highest proportion of slaves relative to the overall population of any country in the world: with 4% out of population of 3.9 million slaves (Uzbekistan and Haiti trail behind, with 3.97 and

Assistant Professor Katherine Ann Wiley shared her research about “Anthropological Research And Methods In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.” Katherine had been teaching english at the high schools at Kankossa, Mauritania. She was involved with the peace courts which lead her to Mauritania. Katherine had gotten so familiar with the community and spoke the language. She wanted to do a type of research that had a meaning to the woman that live there. Many of the woman said how important woman's

environment, culture, government structure, economic activities, and much more. Mauritania is very big and vast, but also empty. Only a small part of it holds human activity, and the rest is just an empty desert. Many places in the world ressemble my country especially in Africa. Libya, Egypt, and Sudan, for example, are all covered in desert and also follow the Islamic religion. Mongolia and Namibia also relate to Mauritania by having a large amount of land, low population density and poor economic

Contracting Parties ‘shall take the measures which are necessary to ensure that the… operation of the Gibraltar Tunnel shall be consistent with their international obligations’. The High Contracting Parties of the Gibraltar Tunnel treaty are Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, Portugal and the UK. Of these five, only the United Kingdom has not ratified/acceded the 1951 Refugee Convention, whereby its current action status is declaration. Similarly, the new 2023 protocol to the 1951 Refugee Convention

financial status. According to Bales, most of them sell their daughters with the purpose of buying television sets. In this business, the girls have no control over their lives. Their masters make all the decisions (Bales 35). HISTORICAL SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA Most of the black Mauritanians inherited slavery from their parents. The parents were slaves; therefore, their children could not avoid slavery. They still work for their parents’ masters. Many of their masters take advantage of the teachings of

A common misconception today in America is that women are supposed to be tall, thin, and tan. America is one of the most culturally diverse places in the world because we are a globalist country, full of many different cultures and opportunities. All around the world the standards of beauty are very different. Here in America being overweight or having stretchmarks is not something to be proud of while in some West African countries it is a sign of wealth and good health, which is valued very highly

Contrary to popular belief, Mauritania, a country located in West Africa, is no longer the world’s slavery capital. In fact, merely 1% of Mauritanian citizens are estimated to be subject to slavery. In North Korea, however, nearly one in five people are subject to slavery. It is said that those enslaved in North Korea are compelled to work as political prisoners. North korea isn’t the only country with a slavery percentage that raises concerns. Uzbekistan, for example, is home to the second highest